[Magdalen] Rejoicing

[Christopher Hart]

I can't honestly say that I totally surprised, Jay. Sorry it all went bad.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry to say it, Christopher, but yes.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:37 PM Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Jay,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm just wondering, without mentioning names, whether the priest who made
> >
> > such a mess is the one that they called from my diocese with such glowing
> >
> > reports and high hopes at the time. I know we corresponded about her at
> the
> >
> > time.
> >
> >  That was quite a while back so it may have been someone else after her.
> >
> > Just curious.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have neglected to mention that my former parish, All Saints',
> > Morristown,
> >
> > > TN (with which I am still in touch) recently called a new priest. This
> is
> >
> > > after several years of turmoil following the retirement of the last
> one,
> >
> > > who left the place in a financial mess and precipitated a serious
> >
> > > membership decline. (She was pretty much responsible for that, as well
> as
> >
> > > the financial mess) The place was kept going with the help of interims,
> >
> > > Deacons Jim and Gigi Sharp (about whom more in a moment), and a
> dedicated
> >
> > > core of members. At one point in their search process they were given
> >
> > > permission by the bishop to extend a call to their then-interim, but he
> >
> > > threw a spanner into the works just as they were about to do so by
> >
> > > announcing that he had accepted another interim appointment, so they
> had
> > to
> >
> > > start over from scratch! That was almost 2 years ago. But at last they
> > have
> >
> > > a priest, the Rev. Mark Holland. He arrived about three weeks ago.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > In the meantime, during that incredibly interminable interim, a couple
> of
> >
> > > things happened. One was that a longtime friend, Sarai Wender, who I've
> >
> > > known since she arrived there as a somewhat wild teenager and who I
> > watched
> >
> > > grow up, settle down, get married, and become a nurse and the mother of
> > two
> >
> > > delightful young ladies (now grown), studied and has become a
> vocational
> >
> > > deacon. (As aside note, this is at least the 4th person I know from the
> >
> > > healing professions who has gone that route...it seems a natural one!)
> > And,
> >
> > > as kind of a punctuation to the whole thing, Jim and Gigi Sharp, after
> >
> > > incredibly long journeys through the diaconate (Jim's lasted, if I am
> >
> > > counting correctly, over 20 years), were ordained to the priesthood
> just
> >
> > > before Christmas and Jim has been assigned as PIC to the small church
> > down
> >
> > > the road in Newport, TN.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > So all seems well there at last!
> >
> > >
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> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
> >
> >
> > List Mail Address: cervus51 at gmail.com
> >
> > Personal Mail: cervus at veritasliberat.net
> >
> > Twitter: @cervus51
> >
> >
>



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Christopher Hart

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